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That's some damned clever and quick thinking.
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It's on a studio lot in LA. It's not, as is commonly believed, in central park in New York. The fountain they try and tell you is the "Friends" one in the park is nothing like the one in the show.
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Screenshot of the YF-19 (back) and YF-21 (front) from Macross Plus.
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We had some "programmable calculators" that looked exactly like the right hand end of that gadget. You could program them using a form of the BASIC computer language. I wrote a blood pressure averaging system on them that was used in our of our trials. It not only averaged the readings it worked out a CV for the mean and would request new readings until they all fell within 5% of each other. Usually it would only take 3 readings but if the patient was too 'excited' when the started taking readings then it would go on a while as they relaxed.
All the nurse had to do is turn the machine on and follow the instructions on screen.
All the nurse had to do is turn the machine on and follow the instructions on screen.
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IanKennedy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:05 pm We had some "programmable calculators" that looked exactly like the right hand end of that gadget. You could program them using a form of the BASIC computer language. I wrote a blood pressure averaging system on them that was used in our of our trials. It not only averaged the readings it worked out a CV for the mean and would request new readings until they all fell within 5% of each other. Usually it would only take 3 readings but if the patient was too 'excited' when the started taking readings then it would go on a while as they relaxed.
All the nurse had to do is turn the machine on and follow the instructions on screen.
Okay, that is legit highly cool.
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I always have found it interesting in seeing these types of technological deadends but for its time it woukd have been a state of the art of the time.
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I had one of these as my university calculator:
This is likely what that guy is holding, if not that a later model:
This is likely what that guy is holding, if not that a later model:
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About a decade later we used these:
Which ran CP/M a predecessor to MS/DOS and Unix that you could program using Turbo Pascal. We built an "Expert System" as they used to be called, which would take information about meals, hypos, glucose levels and other factors and recommend what insulin doses people with type 2 diabetes should take, on a injection by injection basis. "Expert systems" where the precursor to the AI systems we have today, except they didn't work on Neural networks as most do today.
To give you a sense of scale that device was about 8.4" tall by 3.7" wide. It was over 1.5" thick, weighing in at 1.36 lbs.
Which ran CP/M a predecessor to MS/DOS and Unix that you could program using Turbo Pascal. We built an "Expert System" as they used to be called, which would take information about meals, hypos, glucose levels and other factors and recommend what insulin doses people with type 2 diabetes should take, on a injection by injection basis. "Expert systems" where the precursor to the AI systems we have today, except they didn't work on Neural networks as most do today.
To give you a sense of scale that device was about 8.4" tall by 3.7" wide. It was over 1.5" thick, weighing in at 1.36 lbs.
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